"would be present with a mistress (one of whom became his next wife), and she was, privately, resentful of these social strictures. In 1961, at the age of 76, Blixen published ""Shadows on the Grass"", a short compendium of further recollections about her days in Africa. Many of the people and the events from ""Out of Africa"" appear again on these pages. Due to its brevity and its closely related content, ""Shadows on the Grass"" has in recent years been published as a combined volume with ""Out of Africa"". Sydney Pollack directed a film adaptation in 1985, starring Meryl Streep,"
"his ashes were scattered along the runway at the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles. Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. His 1985 film ""Out of Africa"" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1969) and ""Tootsie"" (1982) in which he also appeared. Some of his other best known"
"set to direct and executive produce. Out of Africa Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it"
"Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film included Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole; Malick Bowens as Farah; Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief; Michael Gough as Lord Delamere; Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model and actress Iman as Mariammo. It was filmed in 1984. Despite mixed reviews from critics, ""Out of Africa"" won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Pollack. Karen Blixen recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 she, as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman, is spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, and moves to Nairobi, British East Africa to complete a"
"Kenya to research the life of the writer Karen Blixen. This process lasted three years, at the end of which she wrote an original treatment for a movie based on Blixen's memoir Out of Africa, published using the pen name Isak Dinesen. In 1984, Columbia Pictures purchased the treatment from Cataldi and in 1985 she was executive producer for the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. In September 1992, Anna Cataldi went on her first humanitarian mission with her good friend, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn. Together they"
"1985 film ""Out of Africa""), with co-star Robert Kingsley (Eastwood). The video is interspersed with shots of African wildlife and natural scenery, including a cascading waterfall and Swift lounging with a lion. Finn and Kingsley are shown having a love affair, but after a fight on set the romance ends and the video cuts to the ""Wildest Dreams"" premiere, where Finn sees her co-star, Kingsley, with his wife. Finn is visibly upset but tries to act nonchalant. As they both watch the film, Finn is finally overcome with emotion, fleeing the premiere and getting into a waiting limousine. The video"
"Out of Africa Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it in Danish. The book has sometimes"
"Njeri Karago and director Judy Kibinge are paving the way for others. Perhaps the most famous book and film set in Nairobi is ""Out of Africa"". The book was written by Karen Blixen, whose pseudonym was Isak Dinesen, and it is her account of living in Kenya. Karen Blixen lived in the Nairobi area from 1917 to 1931. The neighbourhood in which she lived, Karen, is named after her. In 1985, ""Out of Africa"" was made into a film, directed by Sydney Pollack. The film won 28 awards, including seven Academy Awards. The popularity of the film prompted the opening"
"Out of Sight Out of Sight is a 1998 American crime comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Frank, adapted from Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. The first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and actor George Clooney, it was released on June 26, 1998. The film stars Clooney and Jennifer Lopez and co-stars Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Nancy Allen, Steve Zahn, Catherine Keener, and Albert Brooks. There are also special appearances by Michael Keaton, briefly reprising his role as Ray Nicolette from Quentin Tarantino's ""Jackie Brown"" the previous year, and Samuel L. Jackson."
"Shoot Horses, Don't They?"", and his second in 1982 for ""Tootsie"". For his 1985 film ""Out of Africa"" starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, Pollack won Academy Awards for directing and producing. During his career, he directed 12 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Susannah York, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Melinda Dillon, Jessica Lange, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Holly Hunter. Only Young and Lange won Oscars for their performances in one of Pollack's films. His disputes with Hoffman during the filming of ""Tootsie"" became well known. Eventually Hoffman began pushing the"
"as an epic love story in the tradition of ""Out of Africa"", attracting tentative interest from actresses such as Meryl Streep and Jessica Lange, but receiving rejection from the film studios. As Kahlo's art gained prominence, however ""in May, 1990 one of Kahlo's self-portraits sold at Sotheby's for $1.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a Latin American painting."" Madonna ""announced her plans to star in a film based on Frida's life"", and Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions reportedly ""envisioned a joint biography of Rivera and Kahlo."" In the spring of 1991, director Luis Valdez began production"
"Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. His 1985 film ""Out of Africa"" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1969) and ""Tootsie"" (1982) in which he also appeared. Some of his other best known works include ""Jeremiah Johnson"" (1972), ""The Way We Were"" (1973), ""Three Days of the Condor"""
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"and killed by a marauding lioness. The music for ""Out of Africa"" was composed and conducted by veteran English composer John Barry. The score included a number of outside pieces such as Mozart's ""Clarinet Concerto"" and African traditional songs. The soundtrack garnered Barry an Oscar for Best Original Score and sits in fifteenth place in the American Film Institute's list of top 25 American film scores. The soundtrack was released through MCA Records and features 12 tracks of score at a running time of just over thirty-three minutes. A rerecording conducted by Joel McNeely and performed by the Royal Scottish"
"did not resume the anamorphic 2.39:1 widescreen format until his movie, ""The Interpreter"", in 2005. ""Out of Africa"" received mixed reviews from critics. The film currently holds a 57% ""rotten"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. ""Out of Africa"" is one of only a handful of films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture but currently have ""rotten"" (below 60%) scores on Rotten Tomatoes. The film won seven Academy Awards and was nominated in a further four categories. The film won three Golden Globe Awards (Best Picture, Supporting Actor, Original Score)."
"Coronation Street: Out of Africa Coronation Street: Out of Africa is a 2008 spin-off film featuring locals from the British soap opera ""Coronation Street"", who visit the luxury resort of Sun City, South Africa. Cilla Battersby-Brown (Wendi Peters), the mother from hell, brought her son and other ""son"" over to Africa to win a competition for $500,000 The story begins soon after John Stape's (Graeme Hawley) kidnapping of Rosie Webster (Helen Flanagan) was revealed in the main show. In the soap, Fiz Brown (Jennie McAlpine) receives bad news from her mother, Cilla (Wendi Peters), about her brother, Chesney (Sam Aston),"
"""Out of Africa"" (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, became an enormous critical and box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture, proving to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their six movies together. His next film, ""Legal Eagles"" (1986), was only a minor success at the box office. Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He released his third film as a director, ""A River Runs Through It"", in 1992, which was a return to mainstream success for Redford as"
"Out of the Past Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes) from his novel ""Build My Gallows High"" (also written as Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and James M. Cain. Film historians consider ""Out of the Past"" a superb example of film noir due to its complicated, dark storyline, dark cinematography and classic ""femme fatale"". The film's cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca also"
"such gentleness and charm... Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms."" In 2008, Molly Haskell praised Streep's performance in ""Plenty"", believing it to be ""one of Streep's most difficult and ambiguous"" films and ""most feminist"" role. Longworth considers Streep's next release, ""Out of Africa"" (1985), to have established her as a Hollywood superstar. In the film, Streep starred as the Danish writer Karen Blixen, opposite Robert Redford's Denys Finch Hatton. Director Sydney Pollack was initially dubious about Streep in the role, as he did not think she was sexy enough,"
"Klaus Maria Brandauer Klaus Maria Brandauer (; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in ""Mephisto"" (1981), ""Never Say Never Again"" (1983), ""Out of Africa"" (1985), ""Hanussen"" (1988), ""Burning Secret"" (1988), ""Introducing Dorothy Dandridge"" (1999), and ""The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich"" (2013). For his supporting role as Bror von Blixen-Finecke in the drama film ""Out of Africa"" (1985), Brandauer was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award. Brandauer was born as Klaus"
"wrote, ""Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means her performance in ""Out of Africa"" is at the highest level of acting in film today."" Longworth notes that the dramatic success of ""Out of Africa"" led to a backlash of critical opinion against Streep in the years that followed, especially as she was now demanding $4 million a picture. Unlike other stars at the time, such as Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise, Streep ""never seemed to play herself"", and certain critics felt her technical finesse led people to literally see her acting. Her next films did not appeal to"
"her Kikuyu squatters. Most of the main characters are identified by their real names, though substantial liberties are taken with some of the details. ""Out of Africa"" won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay Adaptation. An earlier screenplay was written for Universal Studios in 1969 by the playwright, screenwriter and science writer Robert Ardrey, but the script was never produced. In February 2017, NBCUniversal International Studios announced a joint venture with ""Harry Potter"" and ""Gravity"" producer David Heyman to develop the memoir as a drama TV series with ""The Night Manager""'s director/executive producer Susanne Bier"
"Out of the Furnace Out of the Furnace is a 2013 American drama film, directed by Scott Cooper, from a screenplay written by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby. Produced by Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio, the film stars Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Shepard. The film is about a Pennsylvania steel mill worker Russell Baze (Bale) and his Iraq war veteran brother Rodney (Affleck), who cannot adjust to civilian life. While Rodney makes some money doing bareknuckle fights for bar owner and small-time criminal John Petty (Dafoe), who runs illegal gambling operations,"
"opening by a film with a black director and ""The Fate of the Furious"" became the first film directed by an African-American to gross over $1 billion worldwide. During the 2016 Oscar nominations that sparked the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag due to lack of diversity, F. Gary Gray was noted by many sources to have missed out on a nomination for Best Director for his work on ""Straight Outta Compton"". On April 18, 2018, Paramount Pictures announced that Gray would be directing a film based on Hasbro's ""M.A.S.K."". F. Gary Gray Felix Gary Gray (born July 17, 1969) is an American film"
"of Age"" (1976), and ""Utopia"" (1983). Utopia is a 186-minute film regarded by critics as a ""hard ghetto film"" and is the tale of a pimp and his five girls. The film was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. Towards his later career he mostly directed films for television. Between 1991 and 1992 he directed ""Rosen für Afrika"", a Psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years . Soon the relationship fails due to the aggressive, also destructive tendencies of the"
"winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. In 1980, he starred in ""Brubaker"" (1980). He starred in ""Out of Africa"" (1985), which was an enormous critical and box office success, and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, ""A River Runs Through It"", in 1992. Redford retired after completing the film ""The Old Man & the Gun"", which was released in October 2018. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for ""Quiz Show"". He received a second Academy Award—for"
"Out of Darkness Out of Darkness is a 1994 American made-for-television drama film starring singer-actress Diana Ross. The movie was distributed and released by ABC on January 16, 1994 in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Italy and Portugal. In the film, Ross's character, named Pauline Cooper, is a former medical student who becomes ill with paranoid schizophrenia and loses 18 years of her life due to the sickness. After her release from a mental ward, Pauline struggles to rebuild her life with help from doctors, nurses, and a new experimental medication that will help aid her back to"
"Rhodes of Africa Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee. The film was the idea of South African novelist Sara Millin, who pitched the idea of a film of Rhodes' life to Michael Balcon. Plans to make the movie were abandoned when General Smuts expressed opposition to the project. However he changed his mind after he read a copy of the script. Leslie Banks, Clive Brook, Cedric Hardwicke and Brian Aherne were all discussed for"
"District Court Judge William Walls, sitting in Newark, New Jersey, dismissed the lawsuit, saying that the film did not refer directly to any of the plaintiffs. Out of the Furnace Out of the Furnace is a 2013 American drama film, directed by Scott Cooper, from a screenplay written by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby. Produced by Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio, the film stars Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Shepard. The film is about a Pennsylvania steel mill worker Russell Baze (Bale) and his Iraq war veteran brother Rodney (Affleck), who cannot"
"Out of Season (film) Out of Season is a 1975 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges, and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Susan George, and Cliff Robertson. It was produced by Lorimar Productions and entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. ""Out of Season"" was filmed at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, and on location in Dorset, primarily at the Isle of Portland. The film was originally titled ""Winter Rates"" and was announced by ""Daily Variety"" in 1974 to be starring Redgrave and Oliver Reed. It had an expected budget of approximately $500,000. Joe Turner (Cliff Robertson) returns to Great"
"Jacques Tourneur Jacques Tourneur (; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French film director known for the classic film noir ""Out of the Past"" and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including ""Cat People"", ""I Walked with a Zombie"" and ""The Leopard Man"". He is also known for directing ""Night of the Demon"", which was released by Columbia Pictures. While in Hollywood, he was usually addressed by his anglicized name ""Jack Turner"", a literal and phonetic translation of his name in English. Born in Paris, France, Tourneur was the son of film"
"David Watkin (cinematographer) David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was a British cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source. He worked with such film directors as Richard Lester, Peter Brook, Tony Richardson, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack. In 1985, Watkin won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on ""Out of Africa"". He received lifetime achievement awards in 2004 from the British Society of Cinematographers and the cinematographic-centric Camerimage Film"
"Lean had fought to make a two-part epic telling the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty, for which he could not obtain financing (the budget was an estimated $50 million), and had given some thought about doing a film adaptation of ""Out of Africa"", from the book by Isak Dinesen, which Sydney Pollack ultimately directed in 1985. By September 1981, Lean was approved as director and Santha Rama Rau completed a draft of the script. The contract stipulated that Santha Rama Rau would write the screenplay. She had met with E. M. Forster; had successfully adapted ""A Passage"